🏠 A wall coating 🧈 To cover thickly 🧱 To coat a surface 🦵 To put a cast 🩹 A bandage 🌡️ A healing pad

to plaster

5 3.6

To put a hard cast on a broken bone to keep it still

verb
/ˈplæstər/

: enyesar

Joe struggled up the knoll where Teddy was buried, breathing hard, hair plastered to his forehead.
plaster the skin
plaster a foot
plaster a patient's head

Examples

Damien looked about at the thick timber walls, the heavily plastered ceiling, and shook his head.

Fiction book (1991)
Cortana's pain can clearly be seen plastered on her face, which ultimately humanizes her in a commendable aspect.

Blog text (30)
I collapsed on the bed, plastered a wet cloth over my face, and went back to sleep.

Fiction book (1991)
Hair was plastered against its forehead in minute ringlets.

Fiction book (1995)
Tendrils of wet hair were plastered to her forehead.

Fiction book (1995)
Slide down until you're sitting on your butt, legs crossed, spine plastered to the wall." Whitman did as told.

Fiction book (1995)
In her restless sleep, she's fifteen, small like a little rat, hair plastered to the side of her face, pimples peeking out from her malt-colored skin.

Fiction book (2000)
The doctor carefully plastered the patient's arm after the injury to stabilize the bone.
After cleaning the cut, she plastered it with a sterile bandage to keep it protected.
He plastered his ankle after twisting it during the game so it wouldn't move.

Synonyms

to bandage

vsto plaster

34 2.7

To wrap a wound with soft material to protect or support it

focuses more on firm immobilization or hard casting for support

to poultice

vsto plaster

Specialized

9.2

To cover a sore with a warm soft mass to reduce pain and swelling

uses dressings or rigid coverings to protect or immobilize rather than soothe

Antonyms

to remove

∞ 1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

to uncover

NSFW

11 3.4

Remove clothing to show part of the body

Phrasal Verbs

to plaster over

1 4.5

To cover a surface with a layer of material or paint to hide damage

to plaster the ceiling

4.9

Cover a ceiling with wet paste that dries hard to make it smooth

Compounds

plaster cast

Specialized

3 3.1

A hard shell of plaster that keeps a broken bone still while it heals

plaster of Paris

Specialized

1 4.1

A white powder that you mix with water to make a hard object for casts and sculptures

mustard plaster

Archaic

1 9.3

A cloth spread with mustard powder that you put on the skin to make it warm

lath and plaster

Archaic

1 7.2

Thin wooden strips covered with plaster for inside walls and ceilings

plaster saint

Offensive

1 9.3

A person who seems perfect but is not sincere

plaster bandage

Specialized

1 3.5

A cloth strip with a wet white paste that becomes hard to hold a broken bone still

court plaster

Archaic

9.9

A small sticky patch that covers a minor cut

adhesive plaster

3.2

A small sticky bandage that covers and protects minor cuts

plaster machine

Specialized

5.3

A machine that sprays wet material onto walls to make them smooth

plaster printing

Specialized

9.9

A way of making prints that uses a plaster cast to raise lines

sticking plaster

2.5

A small sticky bandage put on a small cut to protect it

How Protected

to plaster

5 3.6

to bandage

34 2.7

to cover

∞ 1.0

to dress

34 5.3

Surface Forms

plaster infinitive

plastered past

plastered past participle

plastering present participle

plasters third person singular

Etymology

Plaster comes from an old Greek word emplastron meaning 'something spread on'. Because it once meant a thing put on the body, to 'plaster' can mean to put a hard cast or dressing on a broken limb or wound.